Ismaili Islam, the sect referenced in your article, is sterilized version of Shia Islam so mild that it is considered heretical by the other sects. If you feel the need to make your Muslim communities feel welcome, then this would be the group to talk to. All politicians will do this once they wind up with Muslim constituents. As I mentioned in another post, there's Saudi Royals and Muslim Brotherhood groups that the current and last president entertained at length. Ismailis are kittens compared to them.
I can see your point about (paraphrasing in my own words) how a politician must entertain that group of people as voters. But the whole thing where he actually brought about getting them involved with teachers makes me .. uncomfortable.
I would like to learn more about how he will handle this, especially sharia law and it’s implementation. It is so far against the grain of American values and so many politicians refuse to even touch the subject that it is just taking over. As it did in the UK .. it is happening here.
Naturally Obama has embraced it and accelerated the mess. But whoever replaces him in ‘12 needs to put the breaks on and draw the lines in the sand.